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XFX R9 380X DD XXX OC Review

XFX R9 380X DD XXX OC Testing:

Unigine Heaven 4.0:

Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0 is a DirectX 11 GPU benchmark based on the Unigine engine. This was the first DX 11 benchmark to allow testing of DX 11 features. What sets the Heaven Benchmark apart is the addition of hardware tessellation, available in three modes – Moderate, Normal, and Extreme. Although tessellation requires a video card with DirectX 11 support and Windows Vista/7, the Heaven Benchmark also supports DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL 4.0. Visually, it features beautiful floating islands that contain a tiny village and extremely detailed architecture.

Settings

8x AA

Ultra

Tesselation = Extreme

Measurement = FPS

3DMark:

3DMark: Futuremark's popular 3DMark suite is designed to let a wider range of the user base make a comparative analysis of the gaming prowess of their systems from entry level PCs, to notebooks, and extreme gaming PCs.

Settings

Default test settings

Sky Diver

Fire Strike

Fire Strike Extreme

Fire Strike Ultra

In the Unigine Heaven 4.0 test, XFX's R9 380X delivers better FPS performance than the GTX 960 at 1920 x 1080 and 2560 x 1440, stock and overclocked. However, the R9 380 is right on its heels in the stock tests, but pulls ahead of the R9 380X when overclocked. In 3DMark, the R9 380X does a good job of keeping ahead of the GTX 960 and R9 380 at stock speeds, but once overclocked the R9 380 is the better performing card until you hit the Firestrike Ultra test.